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Shortly after the polls closed, preliminary results showed that voters in the Swiss city of Basel on Sunday overwhelmingly supported spending about $40 million to host the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. Sixty-four percent of voters in...

The firm that created ChatGPT, OpenAI, raised an additional $6.6 billion in capital, increasing its valuation to $157 billion and solidifying its leadership position in the artificial intelligence industry globally. OpenAI made the historic investment, which...

Japan’s government announced that it is getting ready to start providing cash again to the UNRWA, the crisis-hit Palestinian refugee organization that oversees almost all relief to Gaza. Japan, which was previously the sixth-largest donor to...

The World Food Programme (WFP) has received a new contribution of US$5.4 million from the Government of Japan. A handover ceremony was held today in Dhaka with the participation of H.E. Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh,...

Due to claims that staff members were involved in the Hamas attacks on October 7, the US has decided to suspend financing for UNRWA, the UN organization for Palestinians. According to UNRWA, it has fired multiple...

Citing national security concerns, the Canadian government announced restrictions on research funding on Tuesday to stop the transfer of cutting-edge technologies created by Canadian institutions with China, Iran, and Russia. Additionally, it released a lengthy list...

According to a government announcement made on Tuesday, Canada will discontinue supporting research projects on sensitive areas if any of the researchers engaged have ties to defense or security organizations of adversarial foreign powers. “Canada’s advanced...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday cut off funding to the World Health Organization, accusing the UN body of mishandling the coronavirus crisis as governments grapple with how and when to get their struggling economies back...

The United States announced it was halting funding for the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees Friday after declaring the organization was “irredeemably flawed. Washington has long been the UN Relief and Works Agency’s (UNRWA) largest...

Swiss voters killed off their country’s chances of hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics on Sunday after refusing to approve financial support for the bid in a poll. Some 54 percent of voters in the southern canton...